Actor
Robin Ellis
January 8, 1942 · Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is a British actor and cookery book writer best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in the 29 episodes of the 1975 BBC classic series Poldark, adapted from a series of books by the British author Winston Graham. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers, Cluedo, The Good Soldier (an adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel), Elizabeth R (playing Essex), The Moonstone, Bel Ami, Sense and Sensibility (which also featured Clive Francis), The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, She Loves Me (in which he sings) and Blue Remembered Hills (written by Dennis Potter). In 2015–17 and 2019 he appeared in the Poldark series remake as Reverend Halse.
Notable work
Often works with
Jeremy Brett
2 titles together
Sherlock Holmes, The Good Soldier
Edward Hardwicke
2 titles together
Sherlock Holmes, American Playhouse
Colin Jeavons
2 titles together
Sherlock Holmes, Play for Today
Roger Hammond
2 titles together
Sherlock Holmes, The Good Soldier
Krister Henriksson
2 titles together
Wallander, Wallander: The Photographer
Mats Bergman
2 titles together
Wallander, Wallander: The Photographer
Full filmography · 47
Poldark
as Reverend Halse
20157.8
Wallander
as Tom Lyell
20056.9
The Fall of Milosevic
as Narrator
2001
The Death of Yugoslavia
as Narrator
19957.4
A Dark Adapted Eye
as John
1994
Between the Lines
cast
1992
Heartbeat
as Joe Henderson and as Sir Richard Lonsdale
19927.2
Cluedo
as Colonel Mike Mustard
1990Capstick's Law
as Henry Capstick
1989
Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Robert Norberton
19848.2Love and Marriage
as Adrian Carter
1984
American Playhouse
as Robert Acton
1982